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There's no question that the San Francisco VA Medical Center, with the support of NCIRE, plays a major role in advancing veterans health care through research. The excellence of our NCIRE and SFVAMC investigators, all of whom are UC San Francisco faculty members, is fundamental to our success in developing cutting edge knowledge that will advance medical treatments of veterans and others, both locally and worldwide.

Paul Volberding, MD
Chair, NCIRE Board of Directors
Chief of Medicine, SFVAMC

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Shira Maguen, PhD

Staff Psychologist, Mental Health Service, SFVAMC
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCSF

Email: Shira.Maguen@va.gov

Aspects of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Dr. Maguen's research interests fall under the general umbrella of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). They include risk and resilience factors in veterans; female veterans and PTSD; grief complicated by adjustment disorders such as anxiety and depression; and coping with the ongoing threat of terrorism in countries such as Israel. Current projects include investigations into the psychological impact of taking a life in war; the relationship between PTSD, comorbid disorders, and service utilization in women veterans; and the relationship between mild TBI and PTSD.

Maguen S, Turcotte DM, Peterson AL, Dremsa TL, Garb HN, McNally RJ, Litz BT. 2008. Description of risk and resilience factors among military medical personnel before deployment to Iraq. Milit Med 173:1-9.

Maguen S, Papa A, Litz BT.  Coping with the threat of terrorism: A review. 2008. Anxiety Stress Coping 21:15-35.